Ebook questions are still out there and vary between student needs/use and faculty needs/use

Professor Sullivan came in today and had questions about accessing an ebook. In our discussion in the past on ebooks we have stressed to NOT have students download as that was yet another step that might confuse them. However, the case for faculty needs are different, as faculty understand downloading and might prefer it. This is/was the case with Professor Sullivan. The confusion he was having was in regards to creating an account within EBSCO. To download items, one must have an EBSCO account, which is FREE and separate from any other accounts related to McNeese or Frazar Memorial for that matter. Once Professor Sullivan was aware that he needed and could create a FREE Ebscohost account to download the book he needed his issue was resolved.

Today's observation is that the particular needs of faculty when using ebooks will vary from the use and needs of students. It might be a good idea to add this feature about creating a FREE account in EBSCO for this purpose as faculty might not be aware this exists.

As for sharing this feature with students that is another matter altogether, but is one that I have tried to include, time allowing, in my instruction sessions.

Again, bottom line, is that a mention of this might be good for future discussion, either in a tutorial post on the ebooks page, adding to our list of questions/answers toward the collection, and/or hosting in some sort of future faculty refresher on ebook tips.

Thanks!
Tracy

Closing Procedures...

Hey everyone,

There is a new addition to our closing procedures. At some point during the evening shift, someone needs to go to Room A and turn off all of the computers. I did it around 10pm last night, but it can be done anytime after the last class is finished with Room A.

And just one more time to be clear: We turn off all public computers, except for the thin clients, at closing. We also turn off both computers at the desk.

Thanks!

Jessica

Professor Ferguson in Agriculture: List of articles not in PubMed

Professor Ferguson has given his Agriculture class a list of articles from PubMed that are not available full text and some only by paying $30. Jan and Jeannie exhausted all their options as well. Looks like ILL. Student is informing professor.
Barbie

LLA 2012 Red River Radio Plug

http://redriverradio.org/post/louisiana-librarians-discuss-relevance-libraries-digital-age#

Great Comments from Carla Clark LLA 2012 President

JSTOR articles that won't print

One of Craig's patrons could not get a JSTOR article to print (only one page would) when searching in JSTOR.

We found 2 alternatives that allowed printing of the complete article:

1. From the Online Journal List tab on the database page, enter the title of the journal, pick the database, year, issue, find the article (sometimes using the pages) and print it from here. (For articles from Biography in Context, see below*)

2. Go to Google Scholar, enter the title of the article in quotes, use the link to JSTOR that is to the right and print.

There are articles in Biography in Context, even the likes of Vogue, (no images though).

Barbie

Checking Out Civil War Books

David has put bar codes on the books. They are held captive in my office, facing the door. There are four boxes, marked with the three titles. If I am not available, please do the following:

1) Make sure they have registered for the event. Library.mcneese.edu/civilwar.html

2) Record their name, email, and phone

3) Record the bar code numbers of the three books you give them.

That is it. Michael has offered to create user accounts for these folks based on the registration form. They are crude and easy to put together because they allow for just this series. I posted this to the Reference blog for a quick reminder.

Note from Jerome:

"If you encounter a patron having problems printing from Word, especially if the Word document has images/graphics, try converting it to a PDF file and printing from Acrobat. Word does not compress images, so image files can be quite large (exceeding the 25mb limit). Converting to PDF "flattens" the image, making it substantially smaller. This should take care of ~85% of the problems."

To convert the file to a .pdf, click "Save As" then choose .pdf from the "save as type" drop-down menu.

Jess